footpad in English
noun
1
a highwayman operating on foot rather than riding a horse.
Discharged soldiers often took to brigandage: in 1718 one formed a company of footpads which raided the roads between Paris and Caen.
noun
padder
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1. You are only a footpad, a simple-minded marquis of the Bludgeon
2. The danger from the footpad, the silent assassin, was always present, here in his church or across the river.
3. METHOD Compare the auricle and footpad swelling, as well as the volume of bile, before and after administration of the alcohol extract of Aucklandiae. (AAE).
4. RESULT The middle and high dosage of Aucklandiae alcohol extracts can inhibit auricle and footpad swelling in mice and increase the volume of bile in rats.